“Shall I read to you?”
“Yes, if you like.”
“What shall I read?”
“I don’t care; anything you please.”
“Shall it be Cook’s Voyages?”
“I have just said I really do not care.”
He took down the Cook’s Voyages; but after about ten minutes he could not go on and he put it back in its place.
“Caillaud’s trial is to take place next week,” he observed after a long pause.
“Horrible man!” she exclaimed, with a sudden increase of energy. “I understand that it was in defending him Major Maitland lost his life.”
“My dear, you are quite wrong. He was defending Major Maitland, and shot the soldier who killed him.”